I organised the Greater (George) Washington Topology Seminar for the year 2020-2021. The passcode to view the recordings of the talks is gwts@725.
Speaker | Date | Title of the Talk | Recording |
Louis H. Kauffman | 2nd October, 2020 | Trivalent Graphs and Virtual Links | Link |
Charles Frohman | 9th October, 2020 | Coordinatizing isotopy classes of webs in surfaces | Link |
Thang T. Q. Lê | 16th October, 2020 | Quantum trace map for SLn skein algebras of surfaces | Link |
Pierrick Bousseau | 23rd October, 2020 | The skein algebra of the 4-punctured sphere from curve counting | Link | Slides |
Micah Chrisman | 30th October, 2020 | The virtual knot concordance group is not abelian | Link |
Alex Chandler | 6th November, 2020 | Torsion in Thin Regions of Khovanov Homology | Link |
Boštjan Gabrovšek | 13th November, 2020 | Bonded knots | Link |
Razvan Gelca | 20th November, 2020 | Searching for Patterns in Skein Modules | Link |
Helen Wong | 11th December, 2020 | The Roger-Yang Skein Algebra for Punctured Surfaces | Link |
Mikhail Khovanov | 5th February, 2021 | Introduction to the Universal Construction | Link |
Maciej Mroczkowski | 5th March, 2021 | Knots with cyclotomic Jones polynomials | Link |
Victoria Lebed | 12th March, 2021 | Unexpected applications of homotopical algebra to knot theory | Link |
Dirk Schütz | 26th March, 2021 | A Scanning Algorithm for Odd Khovanov Homology | Link |
Peter Samuelson | 2nd April, 2021 | The Kauffman skein algebra of the torus | Link |
Krzysztof Putyra | 9th April, 2021 | Unifying colored sl(2) link homology | Link | Slides |
Michał Jabłonowski | 16th April, 2021 | Triple-crossing diagrams of knots | Link |
Nathan Geer | 23rd April, 2021 | Re-normalized Quantum Link Invariants | |
Joseph Boninger | 30th April, 2021 | A Quantum invariant of Links in the Thickened Torus with Volume Conjecture Behavior | Link |
William Goldman | 7th May, 2021 | Dynamics on character varieties and geometric structures | Link | Slides |
Wade Bloomquist | 14th May, 2021 | Stated Skein Modules of Marked 3-Manifolds | Link | Slides |